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After her death, Longfellow had difficulty writing poetry for a time and focused on translating works from foreign languages. Longfellow died in 1882. Longfellow wrote many lyric poems known for their musicality and often presenting stories of mythology and legend. He became the most popular American poet of his day and had success overseas.
Book First: Introduction—Childhood and School-time 1799–1805 "Oh there is blessing in this gentle breeze," The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: Advertisement: 1850 Book Second: School-time (continued) 1799–1805 "Thus far, O Friend! have we, though leaving much" The Prelude or, Growth of a Poet's Mind: Advertisement: 1850
Cullen entered the DeWitt Clinton High School, then located in Hell's Kitchen. [5] He excelled academically at the school and started writing poetry. He won a citywide poetry contest. [6] At DeWitt, he was elected into the honor society, was editor of the weekly newspaper, and was elected vice-president of his graduating class. [5]
As Poet Laureate, Collins instituted the program Poetry 180 for high schools. Collins chose 180 poems for the program and the accompanying book, Poetry 180: A Turning Back to Poetry—one for each day of the school year. Collins edited a second anthology, 180 More Extraordinary Poems for Every Day to refresh the supply of available poems. [16]
The Ego-Futurists were another poetry school within Russian Futurism during the 1910s, based on a personality cult. [53] [56] Most prominent figures among them are Igor Severyanin and Vasilisk Gnedov. The Acmeists were a Russian modernist poetic school, which emerged ca. 1911 and to symbols preferred direct expression through exact images.
Alfred Edward Housman (/ ˈ h aʊ s m ən /; 26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936) was an English classical scholar and poet. He showed early promise as a student at the University of Oxford, but he failed his final examination in literae humaniores and took employment as a patent examiner in London in 1882.
[1] [5] She began writing at a young age, publishing her first poem in BIM, the country's main literary magazine, around 1959. [6] She was educated at St Michael's Girls’ School and Barbados Community College at the University of the West Indies at Cave Hill in the early 1970s, part of the first class of students to attend the college.
Noyes published five more volumes of poetry from 1903 to 1913, among them The Flower of Old Japan (1903) and Poems (1904). Poems included "The Barrel-Organ". [ 7 ] " The Highwayman" was first published in the August 1906 issue of Blackwood's Magazine , and included the following year in Forty Singing Seamen and Other Poems .